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Quotes About Misplacement

There's nothing more annoying than losing your phone, but this happened to me not once or twice, but three times in a row!
~ Madhura Naik
I lost dozens of pairs of expensive glasses because I'd put them down and then not be able to find them again.
~ Bonnie Tyler
Somebody said that dirt is matter in the wrong place. The same definition applies to nine-tenths of those called lazy. They are people gone astray in a direction that does not answer to their temperament nor to their capacities.
~ Peter Kropotkin
more often than not, an exhibition is merely a misplaced object.
~ A.A. Gill
Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain, of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again.
~ Piet Hein
I like sunglasses, the bigger the better, but I lose about a pair a week.
~ Paul Wesley
The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]
~ Horace
It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
They made Lennie feel like an actor who has wandered into the wrong play.
~ William McIlvanney
I'm from Jerz, the home of: "I could've swore I parked my car right here!"
~ Chino XL
Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You don't lose what you never had.
~ Judith Guest
Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to 'clean' it, and suddenly you can't find anything?
~ Rick Riordan
The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.
~ Kay Ryan
Things are always happening to my socks. One's always going off someplace. I don't know why.
~ Elizabeth Enright
I take off my hands and I give them to you but you don't want them, so I take them back and put them on the wrong way, the wrong wrists.
~ Richard Siken
Muy bien, así que. Tú, Belikov, la alquimista, Sonya Karp, Víctor Dashkov, y Robert Doru están saliendo juntos en Virginia Occidental. —No —dije —¿No? —Nosotros, uh, no estamos en Virginia Occidental. • capítulo 22
~ Richelle Mead
Tongue in cheek, Donald said, "Milord, I thought she was safely ensconced in your tent. How is it that you keep misplacing her?
~ Delilah Devlin
I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.
~ Sara Paretsky
Holly klopte op haar zakken. 'Gut, wat jammer. Laat ik mijn superlaser nou in een andere zak hebben laten zitten.
~ Eoin Colfer
Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.
~ Russell Baker
My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen utensils in the wrong drawers.
~ Tom Conti
I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.
~ Ryan Tedder
Mac raised his hand. "Once I could only find one of my socks," he said. "Man, I looked everywhere for it! Under the bed, in the bathroom. You'll never guess where I finally found it." "In the refrigerator," said Bob. Mac's mouth dropped open. "How'd you know?" Bob shrugged. "Where else?
~ Louis Sachar
And how funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place. Ideas too, I muttered. Ideas.
~ Louise Erdrich